Blast from the Past Articles

I have fond memories of Halloween -- costumes,  trick-or-treating, and giant candy bars -- not those tiny "fun-sized" ones that we hand out now. My friends and I grabbed our pillowcases and walked the entire tract of  Whiting Woods. My mom said one year, we had 200...

I was walking across campus at Occidental College, a path surrounded by native oak trees,  chatting with this guy, and I blurted out, "golly." He didn't say anything about my odd exclamation. Frankly, I didn't know it was odd. But later, after we were married, he told...

At the time of my birth, my parents were living in Burbank, California, home to film studios and Lockheed Aircraft. Both my Mom and Dad worked at Lockheed -- my Dad was a sales engineer, and my Mom checked the updated blueprints for the airplanes. You remember that...

I grew up in the suburbs of Hollywood in a small town that housed Marilyn Monroe's mother. La Crescenta is tucked into the Verdugo Mountains and was named after the settler, Don Jose Verdugo, in 1784. The Tongva Indians inhabited the area before that.     In...